Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[Tim Major]

Yeah, sometimes they try to twist all faces at once. I mean, I understood how it worked before I hade one, it can't be that complicated, right? Do they think we shuffle the stickers like a deck of cards?

That's because they see you do it fast so they try to copy.

This thread stopped being original ages ago. IMO it should be closed, same stuff repeated.

 

[Blippop]

I have one that may not have been mentioned thus far.

I was cubing in mcdonalds, a guy came over to me upon noticing. Evidently he also noticed my university top and invited me to join his club.
His club was a troupe of circus performers.

If people understood a little more about cubing then perhaps cubers wouldn't get treated like something absurd.

 

[BrainOfSweden]

This thread stopped being original ages ago. IMO it should be closed, same stuff repeated.

You don't have to read it if it doesn't suit you. I'm not trying to sound rude, but I think that quite fun stories pops up every now and then, and this is the best way to keep them in one place. Sure, if I read through all 300 pages I might find a similar or identical story, but I wont do that unless I'm very bored.

 

[Bapao]

I agree with BOS. It's a thread where you can have a few laughs. Sure, the same things pop up frequently, but everybody is different and will react differently to a given situation. There's no harm in leaving it open IMO.

But then again, a lot of long running "fun" threads were closed last year. Nothing against the mods shutting this one down if enough people complain. I'm still pretty amazed that my competition thread has been allowed to stay open for as long as it has. I can imagine that it's a thorn in many peoples eyes.

 

[timelonade]

I think it's nice when people try to talk to me about the cube, even if they know nothing

 

[Ander0072]

They usually find it amazing around here, and most often they say stuff like "OMG how is that even possible?! Your hands are moving so fast!"
Or the usual
"I could do that too" *takes cube and randomly moves sides or takes cube and spends whole class period trying, but doesn't finish* Or they take it for a moment and say they did it

A kind thing I do is give them a pattern
(like when it's a checker pattern, since that's easier for a mind not familiar with the cube to grasp than the, "just different centers" pattern)
and have them try and solve it, it's so funny, and sorta nice to see how happy they get just when they undo that; one girl after undo-ing the pattern even screamed and class was about to start xD

 

[insane569]

Its hard to explain the difference of a Rubiks and a Dayan to a non-cuber.

 

[cubingawsumness]

Its hard to explain the difference of a Rubiks and a Dayan to a non-cuber.

agreed
when i first wanted to buy a dayan cube my mom was like, "just oil your old one!"
and I try to explain corner cutting, and she's like "turn slower!"

 

[sprout]

i hear people say 1.Does lubricant make your cube softer?
2.The most i can do is four sides

 

[Ranzha]

i hear people say 1.Does lubricant make your cube softer?
2.The most i can do is four sides

M2 U2 M2 U2.

 

[Cubeimpact]

Friend: Wow is there lk a cheat code of some sort?
Me: It's called algorithms.
Friend: No! it's a cheat code. Like a sequence if some sort.
@#$k...

 

[rubikmaster]

Friend: Wow is there lk a cheat code of some sort?
Me: It's called algorithms.
Friend: No! it's a cheat code. Like a sequence if some sort.
@#$k...

LOL,happens all the time.I try to explain they are simple sequences of moves which you use to solve cases but for them it's just cheats or codes of some sort. Whenever they say that,just remind tham that you solve the first two layers intuitively.

 

[5BLD]

Friend: Wow is there lk a cheat code of some sort?
Me: It's called algorithms.
Friend: No! it's a cheat code. Like a sequence if some sort.
@#$k...

This is why when showing people you use Heise

 

[JohnLaurain]

This is why when showing people you use Heise

Or you ask them if they could find the area of a circle in terms of pi without using the formula for it.

 

[Ander0072]

Or you ask them if they could find the area of a circle in terms of pi without using the formula for it.

Someone not willing to understand a cube wouldn't care much for a circle & a square.
Also,
It's surprising how even though without cubing one probably would know the word "intuition" when i say one can do it intuitively they get a completely blank look on their face like:
-What'd you just say?-

 

[ZhanChiboy]

Back in Elementary:

Girl: "Justin Bieber is faster than you!!! You cannot beat him!"
LATER:
What now im sub-30! WOO.

LATER IN HIGHSCHOOL:
*3x3x3 pops 5 pieces.*

Girl: "How do you if its right?"

 

[aaronb]

agreed
when i first wanted to buy a dayan cube my mom was like, "just oil your old one!"
and I try to explain corner cutting, she's like "turn slower!"

That's some good advice she gives you. (;

 

[rubikmaster]

My best friend asked me about my colored lunhui . He thought it was cheap and nasty fake because it didn't have stickers and it wrote dayan on it's logo. It took me ages for me to explain to him that dayan cubes are better(way better) than rubik's brands. And yet, he still thinks that i'm too cheap to buy rubik's brand cubes because they are pricier...

LOL,well I guess I'm lucky then.Most of my friends from school do know the difference between good and bad cubes and brands.I just say like: This is Dayan,Alpha-V,F-II,...it turns fast,has great corner cutting,way better than Rubik's and stuff like that and my friends seem to get it all.

 

[GlowingSausage]

LOL,well I guess I'm lucky then.Most of my friends from school do know the difference between good and bad cubes and brands.

Same here nearly everyone in my class can solve the cube. I once started it and now loads of people of my school are walking around with a cube xD (not only in my class) But i'm still the fastest

 

[evogler]

Since it's showing up around the web, a whole host of kind folks on various non-cubing websites have been nice enough to explain that Marcell Endrey's 28.80 blindfold record is actually stupid, because there's an algorithm you can do that solves the cube no matter what its initial state is, so the blindfold doesn't even matter. Thanks for clearing that one up, guys!